discoveries 2016

Area of Atlantis - capital of an antiquated progress said to have been demolished by a gigantic volcanic ejection a large number of years back - may have been substantiated by a gathering of Charlotte County anomalists.

An utmost of 12 individuals, with over-created interest, accumulate at a sylvan retreat on the fifth Saturday of any month for an expanded "confab" and cocoa sack lunch. There they endeavor to comprehend riddles that "go astray from the regular request of history, science and theory."

As of late the point was: "Did Atlantis exist? Provided that this is true, where and when?"

Obviously, there was no complete answer. In the event that there were, it would not be a peculiarity. A lion's share feeling is the best anticipated.

Consider the fundamental certainties.

The myth, tale, legend or practically overlooked history was put into the basic writing of humanity by the Greek scholar Plato in 350 B.C.

He purportedly took in the story from Critias, grandson of Solon, a Greek ruler who went by Egypt in 595 B.C.

Solon said he was condemned by Egyptian ministers for not knowing old Greek history. He was demonstrated records of a confused intrusion by Atlanteans shocked by the most punctual Greek tribes.

The intrusion was accounted for by Solon - by means of Critias and Plato - to have happened nine thousand years before his time - that is, more than eleven thousand years before our time.

Atlantis as far as anyone knows was set up by the ocean god Poseidon who sired five arrangements of twin children by the Earth lady Cleito. He named Atlas, the principal conceived child, leader of an expansive island the "span of Libya" (then North Africa past Egypt.) amidst a sea - probably the Atlantic - "past the mainstays of Hercules."

Solon said one could without much of a stretch sail from his landmass to Atlantis and from that point to another mainland past. The columns in later years were accepted to be the prominences shaping the Strait of Gibraltar between the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

discoveries 2016